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It's... complicated :) Mostly because utility companies insist on Excel for exchange of energy calculations. And even more importantly, because it was WAY WAY b
by schveiguy 9y ago
It's... complicated :) Mostly because utility companies insist on Excel for exchange of energy calculations. And even more importantly, because it was WAY WAY better than the previous iteration. Don't make me talk about it.
- mrmondo 9y agoI feel your pain and too don't want to talk about it, the problem is the software 'corporates' think they should be using isn't what they should be using due to people in non-technical roles making technical decisions.
- zie 9y agoYou can use actual programming languages to beat up excel: http://www.python-excel.org/ http://www.python-excel.org/ (I'm sure other languages can beat up excel too) I'm not saying it's a fix for this particular use case, but I couldn't imagine having to manually update a bunch of excel sheets regularly.. talk about a nightmare. ack.
- kaleidic 9y agoOr indeed https://github.com/kaleidicassociates/excel-d https://github.com/kaleidicassociates/excel-d which schweiguy may find more appealing :)